Brazil autoworkers fearful of future amid sales slump
Manuel Domingos constantly fears being placed on mandatory leave, like thousands of fellow workers at an auto factory outside Sao Paulo, proof of the major downturn in Brazil's once powerful…
Mexico overtakes Japan as No 2 car exporter to US
Mexico's booming auto industry has reached a major milestone, claiming to have overtaken Japan as the second biggest car exporter to the United States in the past three months. The…
Pakistan Steel Mills: What the future holds?
Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has been much in the news for the past decade or so and with cumulative losses soaring to over 100 billion rupees no coverage has understandably…
Germany goes to bat for carmakers in EU environmental ‘war’
In the European Union, economic giant Germany is rarely known to be an easy partner. But when its automobile industry is at stake, the gloves really come off. In the…
Fear and composure: Shanghai, the car fair and bird flu
Poultry has vanished from menus in the wake of the bird flu. There are neither chickens nor ducks to be bought in the meat and vegetable market on Guangyuan Street…
Emerging economies
Since long, Pakistan is locked up in a situation of economic volatility, infrastructural deficit, financial disaster in public sector entities and growing poverty. Reformatory policies undertaken by different sectors of…
Corporate power
Economic inequalities within countries have increased significantly in most states that have seen decent growth over the last few decades. But this is usually seen by policymakers as an unavoidable…
The eventless 21st century
IN 1925, Mussolini consolidated his dictatorship with a major speech before parliament, while Hitler published the first volume of Mein Kampf and also established the SS. In India, both the RSS (Rashtriya…
What CPEC 2.0 means
The 14th Meeting of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC), held in Beijing on September 26, 2025, represents a historic shift in Pakistan-China cooperation. More than a…
Industrial policy a relic
AS a response to sluggish growth, a well-trodden and worn-out narrative regarding the need for an industrial policy is again making the rounds in official circles. It is being proclaimed as the…
